Plain explanations of a process most people meet only once.

Employer guide to employment verification

What can be verified, what authorization is required, and how to read a report that has an exception in it.

Candidate guide: you received an HVR request

Why you were contacted, what you are agreeing to, and what you can do if something is wrong.

How to respond to an HVR verification request

For HR and payroll teams: what is requested, what is optional, and what you can decline.

What information can employers actually verify?

Dates, title and status — and why compensation, reason for leaving and performance are treated differently.

How employment verification works, end to end

The six stages of a verification, who is responsible at each, and where the time actually goes.

Understanding discrepancies in employment history

Why a one-month date difference is usually a payroll-system artifact, and how HVR records it.

How to request or dispute your information

The file-request and dispute processes in plain language, with what happens after you submit.

Employment-verification integration guide

Ordering, status events and report retrieval for engineering teams evaluating the API.

Compliance resource center

Permissible purpose, certifications, notices and adverse-action materials, organized by workflow.

Source-verified vs database employment verification

What a database record documents, what it does not, and why HVR attaches source, method and date to every field.

Employment verification laws by state: what employers should know

Salary-history bans, stricter state reporting regimes and consumer notice rules — organized by theme, not by statute.

How long does employment verification take?

Most verifications complete in a few business days. Where the time actually goes, and what shortens it.